I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available.

When I paint, I never think of selling. People simply fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to develop ourselves as we strive for greater heights.

This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution.

For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.

When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.

By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life.

I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.